My name is Mara and I am a User Experience Design student. To dig right in, I'll shortly explain my idea for the self-initiated project I am working on. The aim of it is to raise awareness about well-being, a topic that is more and more popular every year. It can be argued it is because of many factors, one popular opinion with which I agree is, we developed in many fields that sped up our lives to a point we can't keep up with ourselves. People have this need to evolve all the time but not so much in quality as in quantity, with each year there are exponentially more shops, more apps, more technology, more series on Netflix… Essentially we created so much more than we need that there is no time or space left for us to look and see the world around us, which would make any social living being depressed. Writer Yuval Noah Harari mentions in his book that more people commit suicide than people get killed by soldiers, terrorists, and all criminals together. A few weeks ago I went for a walk around Hyde Park and accidentally came across „Speakers Corner“, which I have not heard of before, but later learned it is historically well-known. Besides spending two hours talking about my viewings of religions, a man with a big megaphone caught my eye, yelling to people not to have children. He challenged people to argue him and give one good reason why should anyone bring a human life on our planet today. At first surprised with such a serious statement, at the end I completely agreed with him (in my head), the world we created is disgusting in many ways, I won't enumerate the reasons, so I don't wander too much from the topic. I mentioned this not to discuss whether people should have children, but to point out the world has become such a place that some people question if it is worth existing. I think, for us already here, we should try to find positivity in life and remind ourselves of what matters to us and everyone else, that is the only way we have a chance to make things better. I don't think the world should be observed with pink glasses all the time, but to stay sane and motivate ourselves to change for the better, it is all right to put them on now and then. There's an elephant in the room. |
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March 2022
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